Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus parvus Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 386. Holotype: MCZ 21947, by original designation. Type locality: "Cueva del Aura, Turquino Peak, circa 3500 feet, Oriente [now Santiago de Cuba Province], Cuba". Secondary homonym of Hylodes parvus Girard, 1853.

Eleutherodactylus cubanus Barbour, 1942, Copeia, 1942: 179. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus parvus Barbour and Shreve, 1937.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cubanus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas cubana — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 361.

English Names

Cuban Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Known only from the Sierra Maestra, southeastern Cuba, at 800-1830 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. In the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 339; and Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. Transferred to the Eleutherodactylus limbatus group by Estrada and Hedges, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 856. In Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas), unassigned to species group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus limbatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 80. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 331. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 58-, provided a brief account. Rodríguez, Alonso, Rodríguez, and Vences, 2012, Salamandra, 48: 71-91, reported on molecular phylogenetics of this species.

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